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JpRAISE God for -cu inters store of ice ! Praise 

God for s2ij}imer s heat 
Praise God for fruit-tree bearing seed; ^- to yozi it 

is for meat I 

Praise God for all the bounty by which the world 
is fed I 

Praise God his children all^ to whom he gives their 
daily bread! 

For Fifty Years. 



^p)RAISE God for wheats so white and sweety 

of nuhich to make our bread'. 
Praise God for yellow corn^ with which his waitijig 

world is fed! 
Praise God for fish and fiesh and fowl ^ he gave to 

nian for food I 
Praise God for every creature wJiich he 7nade, and 

called it good ! 

For Fifty Years. 



'HE good God wishes and means to save 



health and strength and joy and abundant 



hfe. So much we know. It is ahvays going 
on. Jesus Christ is giving hfe more abundantly, and 
awakening the dead now, just as he said he 
would. Five hundred years hence they will pub- 
lish a story about you and me. We shall seem 
very romantic then ; and we shall be worth read- 
ing about, if what we do is simple enough and 
brave enough, and loving enough for anybody to 
think that we do it ^' for the love of Christ/' or 
for anybody to guess that we had been bound 
together ix his xame. And service cannot be 
mistaken which is rendered. 




In His Name, 




LL men. of whatever calling, so far as they 



deal with these divine and infinite rela- 



tions of men, — truth, beauty, justice, or 
life, — are all Knights of one Round Table, linked 
together in one great fraternity of duty, blessed 
by one privilege, and called by one call. That 
these drudges in the crowded city may truly live ; 
that these heathen in the polluted islands may 
truly live ; that this miser heaping up rusty gold 
may truly live ; that the nation, not hampered by 
her useless acres, nor bound to earth by her mines 
of wealth, may truly live, — this is our office, an 
office which is our privilege. This is the service 
in which we are united as servants of the liberal 
professions. It is the servdce to which we are 
called by Him who lived and died that men 
might have life more abundantly. 




What Career, 



]\IAX because he is God's child maintains 
his intimacy with his Father. 'Mere 
crcatuyts of God may be supposed to 
keep out of his presence unless they are called. 
But children come and go as they will. As for 
nearness, nothing need be said. That we live, 
and move, and have our being in this Infinite 
Power all around us. which asserts itself in every 
pulse of life, in every sound, in every perfume and 
color, — that this is near us, nay, in us, nobody need 
say or prove. But that we belong to this Power 
and he to us, that he is conscious of our strivings 
and we of him, — this is what Jesus Christ tells us 
we shall learn if we try. To try that experiment, 
to plunge into the ocean of God's life and see if 
he will not bear us up in a Father's arms, — this is 
to pray. It is to attempt nothing serious without 
the thought or word which asks him to help and 
make the endeavor his. It is to come to him in 
every sorrow, talk it over, and recognize him as 
sympathizing in our failure. It is as well to come 
to him in every great delight, to thank him for the 
quickening of our power which has gained success, 
and to recognize him as sympathizing in our joy. 

The Life in Common. 




7"OU may talk as much as you choose about 



being tossed alone on a billow and com- 



muning with Xature. I tell you that when 
you lie on your back on the top of a load of hay, 
you may commune with Xature in solitude just as 
perfect. The blue sky above ; sometimes a flight 
of birds ; once, a lonely eagle. — and nothing else : 
but you imagined a possible angel between you and 
the empyrean. Live much in the open air, touch 
elbows with the rank and hie. and see every day 
some man who is your superior. Hold to these 
rules ; anyway these three will do for a beginning. 
It is •• with God, for man, in heaven." 




Mr, Ta iv^ie r' s V i ca tio n . 




" TJioH art the Son of the Living God:' 
" Upon this rock •ivill I build niy cJiurch."' 

OX that truth, Jesus meant to build his church 
if, in his own words, we are to find his 
meaning. I beUeve we find his meaning 
there undisguised, and that we find the whole of 
it. I believe that history has made good his 
assertion, and has illustrated his meaning. His 
church exists. It has spread over this world, sub- 
dued this world, governed this world, re-created 
this world, as not the most intense prophecy of 
that day declared it would in so few centuries. 
It grows more powerful and more. It compels 
government to obey it, and literature and science. 
It heals the broken-hearted ; it opens the eyes of 
the blind ; and slowly, but surely, frees the cap- 
tive. His kingdom comes, with the certainty of 
eternal power : and his church is the agent by 
which it comes. Or, to take the figure of this 
text, the shelter of his church becomes wider and 
wider : her roofs and spires and domes welcome 
more worshippers and more, — are the homes of 
the devotion of more hearts and more. Every 
land bears up her crosses where they may flash ni 
the sun : every breeze curls her incense as it 
rises to the living God. And of this whole great 
fabric, wide as the world as it extends, there is one 
foundation, and one only ; which is, that Jesus is 
the Christ, and that he is the Son of that living 
God. Sermon, 

2 



XD for the centre ot all lite, which is com- 



munion with Go:l. mtimacy with him. — 



there is but one way to it. sure as it is 
simple. The pure in heart,, they see God. Those 
who speak to him as his little children, hear sooner 
or later his reply. Those who look for his hand- 
writing find it sooner or later. Tho-^e who listen 
for his voice find they are walking with him. And 
all this, m its best and highest, supposes not only 
the aspirations of the spirit, but the use and control 
of the body, and the enjoyment of the world. He 
that hath ears to hear, let him hear ! He that hath 
eyes to ^ee, let him see ! He that hath feet to run. 
let him run He that hath voice to sing, let him 
sing ! He that hath his home in a paradise of 
beauty, let him walk with God. morning, noon, and 
evening : and in that paradise, where he finds, as he 
will find, the work of God unfinished, — let him 
vritli God be fellow-laborer. 




A Sum me r Vacation. 




HE young people confide to me that they 



are sad because they have no special genius 



for this or that. Dear children, for all of us 
there is the divine pre-eminence that we are all 
the children of an Infinite God. He does not want 
us to use merely our accomplishment in his work. 
Has he not legions of angels ? He hopes, and lets 
us hope, that we will use his life in our endeavors, 
we will claim his help in our exigency. Let come 
what trial may, before whatever tribunal, we will be 
sure that, if we only choose, his infinite help will be 
ours. He will tell us what to say. He will show 
us what to do. We fail? We cannot fail, for we 
are his children. 



Sermon. 




IF you are ever tempted to say a word or do a 
::iat shall put a bar between you and 
; : :?:zii-y. your ho:^ie. and your country, 
pray G: :u u:- :urr:y :: :aKr }'ou that instant home 
to his own heaven. And for your country, boy. and 
for :h:.: uar. never dre::u : dre:.u but of serving 
her a- -hr '::_ls you. \: :u .::rr what happens to 
you. no matter who hatters or who abuses you. 
never look a: another hag. never let a night pass 
but you pray Goi to bless that flag. Remember, 
that behind all these men you have to do with, 
behini ohicers and Government and people even, 
there is the Country herself, your Country, and 
that you belong to her as you belong to your own 
mother. Stand by her. boy. as you would stand 
by yoar mother."" 

T/ic Man zi'ithout a Countrw 



THEV who look to God, listen to God. live 
with God, and work for God, succeed. 
They who look to man or love the praise 
of man more than the praise of God, they who are 
listening for men's hosannas or waiting for their 
palm-branches, fall as Herod fell, and Annas and 
Caiaphas and Pilate. AVhere is the temple, of 
which the gold glittered hi the sun of Olivet? 
AA'here are the legions whose hies of soldiers led 
out the Son of David to his death? And he? 
He leads the world this day. inspires its law, and 
directs his victory, not because multitudes wel- 
comed him as king, but because he was obedient 
unto death, even the death of the cross. 

^'And I, if I be lifted up, wih draw all men 
unto me." 

Sermon, 



^T^HIS is wh.it I mean by aggressive Christianity.' 
I or religion on the aggressive. Count such 
work as a spccinc dwiy which each one of 
you has in hand. Is it not enough,"' asks some 
easy-going man of me. if I try to do about right ? 
Xo : it is not enough. Why. is it not enough if 
I am honest in my business, provident in my house- 
iiold, and kind tj my wife ani children? I dare 
not guess how many men put that question to them- 
selves or t3 others, and are satisfied with an easy 
'•Yes'" in answer. It is not enough. You must 
be willing to live and tj work ad the while, so that 
other men shall be honest in their business, provi- 
dent in their households, anil kiiiii to their families. 
Good Gofi ! Who are you. w"m) -o blan'ily tell me 
that these are your virtues?^ How came they to 
be your virtues? How happens it that you are 
not a convict in tne prison, or a beggar on the side- 
walk? Did nobody take care of you? Did nobody 
teach you the difference between right and wrong? 
Did nobo^iy teach you to read your Bible, or to lisp 
the Lord's Prayer? Why. man of ease, — martyrs 
have die«i for you, brave men have fought for you, 
prophets have prophesied for you. Do not be so 
mean a maligner as to refuse to strike a blow your- 
self, to carry a burden yourself, to open blind eyes 
yourself, when so much has been done for you. 



REME^MBER it as a fact, even if you cannot 
account for it, that though we all seem so 
old to you, we do not, in practice, feel any 
older than we did when we were sixteen. AA'e enjoy 
building with blocks as well, and we can do it a 
great deal better: we like the ■•Arabian Xights " 
just as well as we ever did : and wc can laugh at a 
good charade quite as loud as any of you can. So 
you need not take it on yourselves to suppose that 
because you are among old people,"' — by which 
you mean married people. — all is lost, and that 
the hours are to be stupid an':l forlorn. Above all, 
dear children, work out in life the problem or 
method by which you shall be a great deal with 
your father and your mother. There is no joy in 
life like the joy you can have with them. Fun or 
learning, sorrow or jollity, you can share it with 
them as with nobody besides. And you can and 
you will draw in from them notions and knowl- 
edges, lights on life, and impulses and directions 
which no books will ever teach you, and which 
it is a shame to work out from long experience, 
when you can — as you can — have them as your 
birthright. 

Hoiu to do it. 



THAT is that bird ? How they sing, — 
/ those cheerful httle fellows on those 
branches which will swing to and fro 
across the open doorway ! They understand 
Sunday wonderfully well ; or, better, I suppose 
they keep Sunday every day. There is no incon- 
sistency between their Sunday and their weekday 
lives. Sing away, little fellows ; there are no bet- 
ter masses than those, to-day, all round the world ! 
To-day, as land after land flashes into the sun, 
there is a perpetual morning prayer going up to 
God, from that Church which he sees as one, 
though we sub-divide it so. And every day, as the 
lands turn to meet the sun, there is poured 
upwards this song of praise, which does not know, 
perhaps, that it is praise ; and yet is perpetual, 
has been, ever since Adam was. An eternal 
hymn, of bird and beast, going up to the God of 
life ! 

Friends Meeting, 




HE trurh is that we are all dealing with 



angels unawares, and we had best make up 



our minds to that, early in our interviews. If 
vou will boldly try the experiment of entering, with 
anybody you have to talk with, on the thing which 
ai the moment interests yju most, you will lind out 
that other people"- hearts are much like yours, 
other people's ex-"criences much like yours, 
and even that some other people know as much 
as you know. In short, never talk down to people : 
but talk to them from your best thought and your 
best frrh::^. 'vvh:;:: trying fjr it on the one hand, 
but without reiectmg it on the other. You will be 
amazed, every time you try this experiment, to 
find how often tne man or woman whom you lirst 
happen to speak to is the very person who can tell 
you just what you want to know. Conversation is 
the providential arrangement for the relief of igno- 
rance. Find out your ignorance, hrst ; admit it 
frankly, second : be ready to recognize with true 
honor the next man you meet, third : and then, 
presto ! — the right person, who knows the right 
thing, will appear, and your ignorance will be 
solved. 




How to do it. 



ND I went down to the chapel to preach." 



There was the text, and there were the 



pat iUnstrations. — of the comfort Mary 
]\Iagdalen gave Joanna, the court lady, and the 
comfort the court lady gave }>Iary Magdalen, after 
the mediator of a new covenant had mediated 
between them : how Simon the Cyrenian, and 
Joseph of Arimathea, and the beggar Bartimeus 
comforted each other, — gave each other strength, 
common force, com-fort, — v»'hen the One Life 
flowed in all their veins : how on board the ship the 
Tent-maker proved to be Captain, and the Centu- 
rion learned his duty from his Prisoner : and hovv^ 
they '-all came safe to shore" because the Xew 
Life was there. 

And I said to them all. Oh, if I could tell you, 
my friends, what every twelve hours of my life tells 
me of the way in which woman helps woman, and 
man helps man, when only the ice is broken : 
how we are all rich so soon as we find out that we 
are all brothers, and how we are all in want unless 
we can call at any moment for a brother's hand, — 
then I could make you understand something, in 
the lives you lead every day, of what the Xew Cov- 
enant, the Xew Commonwealth, the X^ew Kingdom 
is to be." 




Christmas Waits in Boston. 



^- r 1 A IS X'T good to live all alone. Et 's no 
I good lookin' back to old times, whether 
they wus better or wus wuss, onless ye 's 
lookin* forward to what the good God has ready 
to-morrow. There 's no sayin' what to-morrow '11 
bring, boys. Sure it '11 bring smirise, sure it '11 
bring light : and there's no sayin' what more it '11 
bring, ef ye '11 trust it. When you come to live ez I 
live ye '11 know there 's one friend that 's near ye 
all the time. Ye seek the good God. 'n' ye find 
the good God ; ye seek your Saviour, 'n' ye find 
your Saviour. Ef ye aint lookin' for v\'orms, ye dl 
see angels, boys. But, wot I say, boys all. is this : 
Ef we IS a club, — whch is, I b'lieve, a little church- 
without any meetin'-house. — ef we is, w"y, we has 
to convert the heathen. 'X° if people is crooked, 
we is to make "em turn round and be straight. Wot 
is it the song says, — et will be all right ef we ' Eook 
out and not in ' ? " 

Four and Five. 



BECAUSE they saw the love of God in every- 
thing around them, the immediate compan- 
ions of the Saviour found the world a new 
world. The joyous and cheerful aspect of their 
life strikes every careful reader of the life in 
Galilee. Is God Father? Then we are children. 
The soft breath on your cheek is God's breath. 
The joy of life, as you look out on the morning, 
as all Nature sings its song of praise, is the echo of 
his present joy. And at night, when you sink to 
sleep, that blessing is the blessing he gives his own. 

So you find him in the sunshine, find him in the 
cool of night, see him in the stars of the infinite 
heaven, and hear him in his whisper which tells of 
right and truth : you find love, and know that love 
rules the heaven and the earth. As you know that, 
all darkness flies away. 

Sermon. 



. 4 




IT is better to do one thing well than two things " 
by halves : better to learn one thing thoroughly 
than to get a smattering of two ; better to stick 
to one duty till it is finished than to make two be- 
ginnings : better to stand loyally to the post God has 
pointed out than to try to serve here and there and 
everywhere. Let society tell you vrhat is every- 
body's business, an l you will find laid down for 
you in its neutral colors a picture of very level 
backgrounds, of very vague middle distances, whose 
foregrounds are crowded with undecided groups of 
dreamers, who are all preparing to begin to try. 
But do yoH tell society how you mean to serve 
mankind, find your own place and strike your own 
blow, and society will meekly obey each true word 
you speak, and will fall into order at your requisition. 
Hold to the level best which the commonplace of 
society demands of you, and you come out on the 
quagmire-flat of the dismal swamp of worthless 
independence. Ask God to show your duty, and 
do that duty well, and from that point you mount 
to the very peak of vision. It may be that 
you plant there another beacon-light for the 
world. 

His Level Best. 



GREAT God ! how beautiful this world is ! 
Sound and sight always delighted, never 
bewildered. Spring crowded with wonders, 
which we say we never felt before, — nay, which 
we never did feel before ; for, thank God I if one 
power of our nature does grow as we grow older, 
it is this with which we so enjoy Nature. There 
is the dancing shadow of the branch on the wall 
yonder ! Never, till this moment, have I noticed 
such easy gracefulness of movement in a shadow. 

The highest power of man, his best calculation, 
shows, like his weakest and his poorest, that God 
has ruled all things in beauty, and that all man's 
twitchings and struggles are powerless, when they 
act against this eternal law. God of order, God 
of beauty ! how can we thank thee for such daily 
miracles ? How can we learn, grow, to prize as we 
ought life and its wonders ? Strengthen us. Father, 
strengthen us ! that our free lives also may accord 
better and more often with thy Eternal Life ; that 
we may labor Vy'ith thy laws, with thy power, — thou 
in us, and Vv^e in thee ! 

Friends Meeting. 



ET us bring, and let us consecrate, all study, 



all observation of Nature : let us gain the 



eternal blessing on our conversation, on 
music and all other fine arts, on our business and 
our politics. Xothing shall be outside the range 
of our worship. We will worship with aU our 
minds ! And for this we will offer not only 
David's devotions, but our own : we will speak not 
only the Bible language, but the language of to- 
day.- A living Service, and not a dead sacrifice, is 
what we have to offer. We must worship with all 
our souls ! And all this means and requires that 
worship, the love of God, and the constant recur- 
rence to God shall be central in all life. AVe will 
not buy or sell without prayer. We will not eat cr 
drink without prayer. We will not vote, or write, 
or read, or go on a journe}', without prayer. While 
we bring every interest to God in prayer, we will 
seek God's help for every duty. We will worship 
with all our strength. 




A Summer Vacation. 



IT is not simpl}' the training of the voice to 
speak : it is not simply the training of the 
eye to see : far less is it the training of the 
fingers to this service or that toil. It is that we 
may come unto a perfect man. The whole body, 
soul, and spirit are to be presented blameless, - — 
the body, by those exercises and by that temper- 
ance which come from that wisdom that is first 
pure: the mind, by that discipline which shall 
quicken fancy, shall strengthen memory, and shall 
clear argument from sophistry : and the soul, the 
infinite child of an infinite God. is to be trained 
in faith, hope, and love, — in faith to look above 
the world : in hope to look beyond time : in love 
to look outside its lesser life, in that communion in 
which we are one with all God's children, one even 
with himself: the willing sons of Almighty God, 
strong in the liberty in which Christ has made us 
free. 

What Car 667'. 



T DO want to go forward in my every day 
I work, as I do in what I say on Sunday, on 
Christian principles. I should like to 
explain what I mean by Christian principle. 
Indeed, it is all in very short language in the New 
Testament, where it says we must bear each 
other's burdens. It says that no man is to live 
for himself alone, and no man is to die for him- 
self alone. For my part, I do not think I should 
work a day if I were not pleased with the thought 
that I was doing my share to clothe a man who 
cannot clothe himself as well as I can clothe him, 
— some poor fellow off in Dakota or catching 
whales in the Arctic Seas, maybe. I want to do 
my share in the work of the world. It happens 
that I have been trained to do this as a weaver. 
I call myself a good weaver, and I think I am able 
to teach other people something about weaving. 
If I did not think so I should go about something 
else. But I want to do this as a disciple of Jesus 
Christ and a child of God. I want to do it in such 
a way that I shall not be ashamed of doing it when 
I come to die." 

How they lived in Hampton. 



4 



IT was from the truth and steadiness of Manco 
and Oello that the great nation of Peru was 
raised up from a horde of savages. They did 
not know much, but what they knew they could 
do. They were not, so far as we know, skilful in 
talking ; but they were cheerful in acting. They 
did not hide their hght under a bushel. They 
made it shine on all that came around. Their 
duties were the humblest, only making a hre in the 
morning, cleaning potatoes and cooking them, 
spinning, braiding, twisting, and weaving. This 
was the best Oello could do. She did that, and in 
doing it she reared an empire. If she had lived 
among her kindred, and done at home these 
simple things, we should never have heard her 
name : but none the less would she have done 
them. None the less, year in and year out, cen- 
tury in and century out, would that sweet, loving, 
true, unselfish life have told in God's service. And 
he would have known it, though you and I — who 
are we ? — had never heard her name. Forgotten ! 
do not ever think that anything is forgotten ! 

The Story of Oello, 



HE - practice of the presence of God" will 



bring to every man the habit of seeing God 



in the mist, the cloud, and the curhng 
wave ; of hearing him in every sound ; of resting 
in his arms when we are tired, and exulting in his 
strength when we are at work. I am always 
obliged to any man, who, instead of saying Good- 
bye " to me, says God bless you," which means 
just the same thing, I am glad to have him 
recognize with me that here are not two of us, but 
three. Because a day is crowded, we do not want 
God crowded out of it. Because we have the joy 
of ^' eventful living," we do not want to forget 
the Lord of Life from whom we are born. We 
are willing to serve Him. We are glad of His help 
and inspiration. 

Every day. then, is glad of a new method, if it 
can fmd one. And it is well for us if every hour 
can speak with some new voice, help us with some 
new hint, lead us by some new inducement, to 
express our joy that we live, and move, and have 
our being in our God." 




2 he Life in Common. 



IFE was purer and simpler and less annoyed 



to us, because constandy now we met with 



near and dear friends whom we had not 
known a day before, and who looked up and not 
down, looked forward and not backward, and 
were ready to lend a hand. Life seemed smipler 
to them, and it is my belief that, to all of us, in 
proportion as we bothered less about cultivatmg 
ourselves, and were willing to spend and be spent 
for that without us, above us, and before us, life 
became infinite, and this world became heaven. 
The Harry Wadsworth Club had enlarged itself, in 
six years, without knowing it, to a thousand mem- 
bers. The life of that young freight-agent had 
made them less selfish and less worldly. The free- 
masonry of it was that you found everywhere a 
cheerful outlook, a perfect determination to relieve 
suffering, and a certainty that it could be relieved, 
— and a sort of sweetness of disposition, which 
comes, I think, from the habit of looking across 
the line, as if death were litUe or nothing ; and 
with that, perhaps, a disposition to be social, to 
meet people more than half way. 




Ten Times One, 




HEX the profession is chosen, and pre- 
pared for. consecrate yourself to God as 
his servant in it. that its work shall be 



weU done. ^' Be ye perfect, even as your Father 
who is in Heaven is perfect."' That is the rule. 
Whatever you do, do that work well. Do it as a 
leader does it. And, above all, do not blow your 
own trumpets : nor, which is the same thing, ask 
other people to blow them. Xo trumpeter ever 
rose to be a general. If the power to lead is in 
you, other men will follow. If it is not in you, 
nothing will make them follow. It is for you to 
find the eternal law of this universe, and to put 
yourself in harmony with that law. Speaking more 
simply, it is to find God, and to work as fellow- 
laborer with him. Do that, and you may aftbrd 
to be indifierent, who else works with you. 



U7ia^ Career. 



SUCH plans, for the good of all, as those 
attempted at Hampton, could not have been 
carried out in any heathen civilization. 
They belong only in the social system founded by 
the Saviour of mankind. The men and women who 
embark on such plans must understand in their 
personal religious experience that if one member 
suffer all the members suffer with it." and that if 
one member is to rejoice all the members will 
rejoice with it. They will remember that the 
Saviour, in his promises for the coming of the 
Kingdom of God, does not address such promises 
to any one lonely follower. He takes it for 
granted, rather, that such lonely follower breathes 
the common life of the church, and that its life- 
blood flows in his veins. It is to the little flock 
that he promises the Kingdom. And to the 
flock, ^" if ye seek the Kingdom of God," He pro- 
mises the temporal success which belongs with the 
Kingdom, and is the reward of such endeavor. It 
is nowhere promised to the Buddhist, satisfied 
with self-inspection : it is nowhere promised to the 
hermit, parting himself from men. It is promised 
to those who are sons and daughters of God, 
united in one Spirit, who pray with one prayer to 
the Father. 

I/o7l> ihey lived in Hampton. 



^ I ^HE Lord will direct/' said Father John, 
I ^" and the Lord will provide. Whether 
my journey helps or hinders, only the 
Lord knows. But it seems to be His work. For 
the Love of Christ I am summoned, and ix his 
XA^iE I go. When I left Lyons, they burned in 
the public square the precious books to which I 
had given twenty of the best years of this little 
life. I said then, as their mocking Viguier led 
me to the drawbridge, and bade me ' Begone 1 ' 
— I said, ' I will not see you till the day in which 
ye shall say. Blessed is he that cometh in the 
name of the Lord."' ' But time brings its recom- 
pense. Father Almighty, grant thy servant vasdom 
and strength to render some service this day 
somewhere to thy children." 

In His Name. 



XLESS you mean to say that God made a 



mistake, there can be no surplus of labor, 



or unless you choose to say that all of us 
have everything we should like or can dream of. 
But till every musicdover in the world has the 
Steinway or Chickering piano that he wants, with 
all the music he wants : till every picturedover 
has his private gallery full till he can enjoy no 
more ; till every dinner table from pole to pole is 
set with the choicest food and china ; till every 
beggar from pole to pole rides a better horse than 
Smuggler or Goldsmith ]\Iaid, — why, there will be 
no ^* surplus of labor." There may be too many peo- 
ple doing one thing and not enough doing 
asnother : but, till the perfect world has come, 
there will be no surplus of labor." Indeed, then, I 
suppose, the only change will be that labor, which 
men dislike, will be changed to work which they 
do like. They rest from their labors and their 
works do follow them." 




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